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Competency and Its Components
Published in Chandan Deep Singh, Jaimal Singh Khamba, Manufacturing Competency and Strategic Success in the Automobile Industry, 2019
Chandan Deep Singh, Jaimal Singh Khamba
Robotics involves the design, manufacture, and application of robots; with the computer interface for control, sensory feedback, and information processing. Robotics has gained significant industrial application in situations involving repetitive work, working in awkward positions, handling materials, and sorting applications and above all hazardous situations where human safety at work cannot be compromised at any cost. The contemporary robots have their genesis in bio-inspired robotics and are strongly influenced by human body movement. The science of robotics has grown tremendously in the recent times and has assumed a significant role in industrial; warehouse; and military applications, like bomb defusal, location of IED explosive mines, etc.
Avineck, the neck of the bird, an arm for the robots
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2019
In bio-inspired robotics, the vertebrae architecture and the study of its mechanical properties have been the subject of research for many years. Pioneering work dates back to the early 90’s with the study of the snake locomotion by Hirose (1993) and continues today with, for example, the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Melon University (Tesch et al. 2009). However, snake-like robots can only operate in 2 D while the bird’s neck needs to act in 3 D. Recently, an eel-like robot capable of maneuvering in 3 D was designed and built at IRCCyN in collaboration with MNHM (Boyer et al., 2009. The bird neck can operate in 3 D with high dexterity and accuracy, covers a large workspace, and, contrary to elephant trunk, it can apply quite high forces and torques as compared to the animal mass. As far as we know, no study has been conducted on the design of a robotic arm inspired from the bird’s neck.
Animal-in-the-loop system to investigate adaptive behavior
Published in Advanced Robotics, 2018
S. Shigaki, M. R. Fikri, C. Hernandez Reyes, T. Sakurai, N. Ando, D. Kurabayashi, R. Kanzaki, H. Sezutsu
In this study, we constructed a remote-operation type AIL system which plays the role of a tool for modeling an animal ability considering the dynamic characteristics of an artificial system to be implemented. The remote-operation type AIL system is practical and useful for a system identification of an animal ability with high accuracy because this system can model the animal's ability in consideration of the time delay, body size, etc. of the artificial system which has been separately considered in the bio-inspired robotics field. Additionally, we assumed that the expandability of the remote-operation type is superior than the on-board type AIL system because the closed-loop system can be easily assembled according to the locomotion form (e.g. walking, flying) of the model organism.
Motion control of a snake robot moving between two non-parallel planes
Published in Advanced Robotics, 2018
Mizuki Nakajima, Motoyasu Tanaka, Kazuo Tanaka, Fumitoshi Matsuno
Motoyasu Tanakareceived his BE, ME and PhD degrees in Engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems at the University of Electro-Communications, Japan, in 2005, 2007 and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2012, he worked at Canon, Inc., Tokyo, Japan. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering at the University of Electro-Communications. His research interests include biologically inspired robotics and dynamics-based nonlinear control. He received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter Young Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter in 2006, and the Best Poster Award at SWARM2015: The First International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics in 2015.